Self service distribution associate Alphonso Purnell distributes mail Friday morning at the main post office on route 50 in Salisbury.

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The U.S. Postal Service is partnering with island businesses to open Village Post Offices next week in Ewell and Tylerton in a measure to assure increased access to postal products and services as the USPS works to realign operating hours at traditional post offices in the offshore waterman hamlets and other sparsely populated communities nationwide.

Harborside Deli in Ewell and Drum Point Market in Tylerton start offering postal services and products Thursday, said Freda Sauter, a spokeswoman at the USPS in Baltimore.

The facilities open in the wake of approvals by the USPS to reduce ...